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niories, owing to the intervention of the barren 

 tract of Cote de Beaupre before alluded to, 

 the principal part of their disposable produce 

 is transported to Quebec by water, in which 

 trade many schooners are almost continually 

 employed during the season of navigation: 

 their cargoes consist chiefly of grain, live cat^* 

 tie, and poultry, besides large quantities of 

 pine planks. In one or two of the bays there 

 are some good banks for fishing, on which a 

 great abundance of excellent fish of various 

 species is caught, and large quantities of her- 

 rings during the season for them. 



Isle aux Coudres (the seigniory of) lies in 

 the St. Lawrence, about two miles from its 

 northern shore, nearly opposite to the Bay of 

 St. Paul, and forms part of the county of 

 Northumberland : it is about six milps in 

 length ; its greatest breadth is three miles, but 

 the eastern extremity of it terminates in a 

 point; granted October 29th, 1687, to the ec- 

 clesiastics of the Seminary of Quebec, to whom 

 it still belongs. Compared with the neigh- 

 bouring mainland, the island is low, though 

 about its centre there are some few rising 

 grounds : the shore in one or two places rises 

 abruptly from the water, and is covered with 

 thick creeping shrubbery, but in general the 

 ascent of, it is gradual and easy. The soil 



